DataKitchen

APRIL 28, 2021

Industry analysts who follow the data and analytics industry tell DataKitchen that they are receiving inquiries about “data fabrics” from enterprise clients on a near-daily basis. Gartner included data fabrics in their top ten trends for data and analytics in 2019. What is a Data Fabric?

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

What makes an effective DataOps Engineer? You might ask what that means. Errors are an inherent part of data analytics. The product for a data engineer is the data set. For an analyst, the product is the analysis that they deliver for a data object. A DataOps Engineer can make test data available on demand.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

As enterprises navigate complex data-driven transformations, hybrid and multi-cloud models offer unmatched flexibility and resilience. Heres a deep dive into why and how enterprises master multi-cloud deployments to enhance their data and AI initiatives. The terms hybrid and multi-cloud are often used interchangeably.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical. EA also enables a better understanding of change, or impact analysis – which is essential considering the agile, data-driven landscape and its state of flux. IT has graduated from a support department to a proactive, value-driving function.

Enterprise 145

Enterprise Data-driven Data Governance Metadata 145

datapine

JUNE 29, 2022

1) What Are Accounting Reports? What Are Accounting Reports? Table of Contents. 2) Why Do You Need Accounting Reports? 3) Types Of Accounting Reports. 4) Accounting Reports Examples. 5) The Role Of Visuals In Accountant Reports. On the basis of every company’s competent management, we can find accounting reports.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Open table formats are emerging in the rapidly evolving domain of big data management, fundamentally altering the landscape of data storage and analysis. By providing a standardized framework for data representation, open table formats break down data silos, enhance data quality, and accelerate analytics at scale.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

What the heck is Artificial Intelligence? It is actually smarter than what you see above. A rare post today. It looks a little further out into the future than I normally tend to. It attempts to simplify a topic that has more than it’s share of coolness, confusion and complexity. No more theory, we felt it! AI | Now | Global Maxima.

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datapine

APRIL 22, 2020

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore. And, as a business, if you use your data wisely, you stand to reap great rewards. Data brings a wealth of invaluable insights that could significantly boost the growth and evolution of your business.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s data-rich environment, the challenge isn’t just collecting data but transforming it into actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. For organizations, this means adopting a data-driven approach—one that replaces gut instinct with factual evidence and predictive insights. What is BI Consulting?

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erwin

AUGUST 28, 2020

Organizations with a solid understanding of data governance (DG) are better equipped to keep pace with the speed of modern business. In this post, the erwin Experts address: What Is Data Governance? Why Is Data Governance Important? What Is Good Data Governance? What Are the Key Benefits of Data Governance?

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy?

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 5, 2021

Remote working has revealed the inconsistency and fragility of workflow processes in many data organizations. The data teams share a common objective; to create analytics for the (internal or external) customer. Data Science Workflow – Kubeflow, Python, R. Data Engineering Workflow – Airflow, ETL.

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datapine

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whatever your sector or niche, if you want to remain adaptable and get one step ahead of the competition, working with the right data-driven tools and utilizing a corporate dashboard is essential. By squeezing every last drop of value from your business’s most valuable data, you will increase your efficiency while boosting your bottom line.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s a fitting way to end what has been another big year for the industry. It can help us leverage significant amounts of data to start designing and discovering new solutions to business and societal problems such as those related to sustainability, life sciences, customer care, employee experience and many more.

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Jedox

MARCH 11, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll look at data silos, how they emerge and the problems they can cause within an organization. We’ll also discuss some approaches to resolving the silos, and most importantly, why it’s vital to success in the long run. They are contrary to the approach of a data warehouse.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

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BizAcuity

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Businesses have never had access to more data than they do today. Because data without intelligence is just noise. Its not that the data doesnt existits that it isnt connected. Instead of operating in silos, organizations gain a unified, real-time view of performance , allowing them to make faster, more informed decisions.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 20, 2020

2020 may well go down as the year where what seems impossible today, did become possible tomorrow. Businesses had to literally switch operations, and enable better collaboration and access to data in an instant — while streamlining processes to accommodate a whole new way of doing things. But UOB didn’t stop there.

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Ontotext

OCTOBER 14, 2021

But amidst all the hype and hubbub, what is the real value of a knowledge graph? In this blog series, we will explore specific industries to highlight the impact of knowledge graphs on critical use cases. Before we dig into the details, however, we need to establish what a knowledge graph is.

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Jedox

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

While that wouldn’t make much sense these days, think about revenue planning, data, and processes. In this blog post, we’ll look at how you connect the dots between Sales Performance Management and xP&A. In this blog post, we’ll look at how you connect the dots between Sales Performance Management and xP&A.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 22, 2021

What drew you to work in the cloud space? What drew you to work in the cloud space? So, what do you like most about the cloud? What motivates you to continue in this industry? Data is now one of the biggest assets an organisation holds and reducing silos allows faster and more effective decision making.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 20, 2021

Most of what is written though has to do with the enabling technology platforms (cloud or edge or point solutions like data warehouses) or use cases that are driving these benefits (predictive analytics applied to preventive maintenance, financial institution’s fraud detection, or predictive health monitoring as examples) not the underlying data.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

But kill that thought for a moment and marvel at what it actually as and how good it is. Yes, it does summarize data from many reports into one. But think of what's on it for a moment. Dashboards are no longer thoughtfully processed analysis of data relevant to business goals with an included summary of recommended actions.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Part Two of the Digital Transformation Journey … In our last blog on driving digital transformation , we explored how enterprise architecture (EA) and business process (BP) modeling are pivotal factors in a viable digital transformation strategy. Probably not.

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Sisense

MAY 18, 2020

Every company is becoming a data company. In Data-Powered Businesses , we dive into the ways that companies of all kinds are digitally transforming to make smarter data-driven decisions, monetize their data, and create companies that will thrive in our current era of Big Data. Adam Murray: Tell us what you do.

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erwin

JUNE 25, 2020

In this post: What Is a Technical Architect? What Is a Technical Architect? We previously have discussed the difference between data architecture and EA plus the difference between solutions architecture and EA. That’s not to say that they operate without the enterprise’s overall strategy in mind.

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Cloudera

MARCH 30, 2022

Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus. Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. But is this emerging role the silver bullet for all organizations’ ethical data dilemmas moving forward?

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. They don’t know exactly what data they have or even where some of it is.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The more an enterprise wants to know about itself and its business prospects, the more data it needs to collect and analyze. Additionally, the more data it collects and stores, the better its ability to know customers, to find new ones, and to provide more of what they want to buy. pivot quicker when supply chains falter; .

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Underlying digital transformation and investment decisions is a precious asset: data. Now more than ever, decision-makers are looking to do more with their data. This is because the majority of IT departments find it near impossible to just ‘ramp up’ data use, and even more difficult to do so at scale.

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Jen Stirrup

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The Microsoft Power BI team have released a preview Data Lineage feature and it is a good start for organizations who are starting to think about data management. Businesses need a clear line of sight on data asset ownership and stewardship. Data lineage has always been important but there is renewed attention on it.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

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Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 17, 2020

So, what is file storage? But here’s the caveat: storage at the file level can handle only small amounts of data. If you want your data to grow, there is a certain point at which the hierarchy and permissions can get really complex and slow the system. Okay, then what is block storage? And what about object storage?

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Cloudera

AUGUST 20, 2024

Whether it’s rapidly rising costs, an inefficient and outdated data infrastructure, or serious gaps in data governance, there are myriad reasons why organizations are struggling to move past adoption and achieve AI at scale in their enterprises. At the core of many of those is the issue of trust, specifically trusted data.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? But what comes after these parameters are set?

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